Quandary: I honestly do not understand why we all insist on talking about GPT-3 as any kind of intelligence whatsoever. It’s an associative probability database. It doesn’t “figure” anything out, nor “decide” things, nor take any “guesses”.
Opinion: we have been influenced by a generation of technologists with an overinflated sense of self-importance bent on manipulating others with their own brand of narcissistic propaganda. Enough.
Saying “associative probability database” still leaves open the interesting question of why it associates e.g. the word “four” with a picture of three young women, or the word “six” with a digit eight surrounded by film strips or whatever that is.
I’m certainly not an expert, but these errors remind me of Moiré patterns. The meaning applied to them are more a function of how we see the errors than intrinsic properties of the system producing them.
Quandary: I honestly do not understand why we all insist on talking about GPT-3 as any kind of intelligence whatsoever. It’s an associative probability database. It doesn’t “figure” anything out, nor “decide” things, nor take any “guesses”.
Opinion: we have been influenced by a generation of technologists with an overinflated sense of self-importance bent on manipulating others with their own brand of narcissistic propaganda. Enough.
Saying “associative probability database” still leaves open the interesting question of why it associates e.g. the word “four” with a picture of three young women, or the word “six” with a digit eight surrounded by film strips or whatever that is.
I’m certainly not an expert, but these errors remind me of Moiré patterns. The meaning applied to them are more a function of how we see the errors than intrinsic properties of the system producing them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern